Novels

Awards in Full

Awards:
1988 Eric Gregory Award
1992 One of the First Forward Poetry Prizes for Kid
1993 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year
1994 Lannan Award
1998 Yorkshire Post Book of the Year for All Points North
2003 BAFTA winner
2003 Ivor Novello Award for songwriting
2004 Fellow of Royal Society for Literature
2005 Spoken Word Award (Gold) for The Odyssey

Zoom! was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Kid was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize. The Dead Sea Poems was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize. Killing Time is the one-thousand line poem commissioned by the New Millennium Experience Company. The Universal Home Doctor was shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize. The Shout was shortlisted for the Nation Book Critics Circle Award (US).